The Banana Diet Fad

There's a new diet fad sweeping through Japan: the Morning Banana Diet, where you eat only bananas for breakfast, then anything you want for lunch and dinner ... and it's making bananas a scarce commodity!

Keiko Akai is very annoyed. The attractive 21-year-old university student has been planning to do a banana diet for some time now, but she can't get started — and not for lack of trying. "I keep going to OK Store, my local supermarket every single day," she says. "In fact, I've just been there. There are no bananas on the shelves, and it's been like that for a month."

Akai has never weighed more than 100 pounds, and is so slim that her waist is swimming in Zara's smallest size XS skirt. She doesn't need to lose any weight. But Japanese girls obsessed with diets tend to jump at any trendy new ones, so, when Akai heard about a popular actress who'd lost 26 pounds through the Morning Banana Diet, she had to try it. And the dearth of bananas as her local supermarket, and many others, is testimony to the popularity of the new dieting fad.

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Just wanted to say that i love this diet, i really does work :-) I have lost 8lbs in the last month. Sure, it is common sense, but its wrapped up nicely with the word "diet", plus i think the banana has a lot of fiber and something to do with the rapid weight loss. Also, they suggest you keep a journal, so i blog online so i can get support and help other people too. In fact, i am eating a banana right now, Yummy!

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Angie
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1 banana contains 90 calories. Room temperature plain water contains 0 calories. A 90 calorie breakfast is way less than the average calorie breakfast eaten. If you take in less calories, of course you will lose weight!
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Bananas contain resistant starch, which ferments in your large intestine, creating by-products that actually block conversion of some carbohydrates into fuel, so replacing ordinary carbs with the resistant starch in bananas can boost fat burning. And banana fiber bulks up in your stomach, so you feel full for longer. The healthy way to do the banana diet makes sense and includes exercise. You can read about it here http://www.dolenutrition.com/bananadiet/bananadiet.htm
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